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Rose Maureen Lipman

Review: Rose, Hope Mill Theatre online

September 10, 2020 mstjl Reviews

Maureen Lipman gives the performance of a lifetime in the online revival of Martin Sherman’s play, Rose. Best known for comedy and roles like Evelyn

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Theatre-Blogging

Review: Megan Vaughan’s Theatre Blogging: The Emergence of a Critical Culture

August 6, 2020 mstjl Reviews

With her blog Synonyms for Churlish, Megan Vaughan was part of a cohort of bloggers who have been shaking up the world of theatre over

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This-is-Shakespeare-Emma-Smith

Review: Emma Smith’s This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright

May 31, 2020 mstjl Reviews

Emma Smith, a professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, draws on her extensive knowledge and scholarship for This Is Shakespeare: How to

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Funny Girl at Theatre Marigny, Paris

Review: Funny Girl, Théâtre Marigny, Paris

November 14, 2019 mstjl Reviews

“Le spectacle continue” is what they say in France when they mean the show must go on. The new Paris production of Funny Girl, from

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Knight of the Burning Pestle. Photo: Johan Persson

Review: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Cheek by Jowl & Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre

June 6, 2019 mstjl Reviews

Eight actors sit on plastic chairs across a broad stage which is otherwise bare except for a large white box. The head of one of

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Equus Production Photos ©The Other Richard

Review: Equus, Theatre Royal Stratford East, London

February 27, 2019 mstjl Reviews

The magic of net curtains is that you can look out but nobody outside can see in. In Ned Bennett’s new production of Peter Shaffer’s

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Lady from the Sea Print Room

Review: The Lady from the Sea, The Print Room at the Coronet, London

February 14, 2019 mstjl Reviews

In Henrik Ibsen’s 1889 classic The Lady from the Sea, a woman finds herself caught between her husband’s land-locked family and the call of the ocean and a

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Good Person of Szechwan Barbican cropped

Review: The Good Person of Szechwan, Barbican Theatre, London

February 10, 2019 mstjl Reviews

Russian director Yury Butusov has gained a reputation for visually stunning, imaginative re-inventions of classic plays from Shakespeare’s Richard III and Hamlet to a highly

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Outlying Islands pic Jack Sain

Review: Outlying Islands, King’s Head Theatre, London

January 18, 2019 mstjl Reviews

Islands inhabit a special place in the imagination. For Shakespeare’s Prospero, it is a place for magic and self-discovery, while it brings out the savage

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Approaching Empty, Kiln Theatre, London

January 15, 2019 mstjl Reviews

Ishy Din’s new play Approaching Empty opens on news of the death of Margaret Thatcher but, in the world of taxi company Kings Cars in Yorkshire, her

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Seagull Satirikon

Review: The Seagull, Satirikon Theatre, Moscow (Stage Russia)

January 14, 2019 mstjl Reviews

The Seagull is one of Chekhov’s most regularly staged plays, often revived in Britain and last year seen in a film version starring Saoirse Ronan

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Caroline or change

Caroline, or Change, Playhouse Theatre, London

December 21, 2018 mstjl Reviews

In Britain, we expect great musicals to have an epic sweep, tap-dancing through rollercoaster love affairs or striding through the crossroads of history. In contrast,

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